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Thousands Rally in Los Angeles for Jobs, Candidates Who Will Create Jobs
More than 6,000 union members and allies rallied Friday in Los Angeles for a massive jobs action to tell California candidates for public office that the state needs leaders who can create and save jobs, not corporate-backed millionaires like gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman and Senate candidate Carly Fiorina.
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I Want to Work. IWW. The AFL-CIO has taken many of the ideas first engendered by the Industrial Workers of the World, to include: a four-day work week; a Union of Unemployed; and our slogan, “An Injury to One is an Injury to All” is used by the ILWU. The IWW accepted women, racial and ethnic minorities, and the so-called “unskilled” trades when the old AFL was actively colluding with corporations and the Federal government to smash us. When the CIO was most effective, organizing horizontally by industry rather than competing by trade, they were purged of left leaders. So, I’m glad that 205 years later you are getting some sense, and Trumka looks like he may be a decent leader, and that CTW is gradually coming back to organized labor, but for crying out loud, give credit where credit is due. Solidarity forever.
G. Glick, Tacoma IWW; IAM&AW LL 282 Retired.
The Afl-CIO has clearly lost its focus. It and its members blindly support Democrats while they and the Republicans join in “free” trade agreements which destroy jobs and rob America of its weallth.
When we made what we used, America was a creditor nation. Now China makes what we use and they loan money to us. Any questions?
The industrial union movement will bury itself if it fails to refocus on the needs of industrial workers. It must demand opposition to free trade agreements in return for support. It must abandon idiotic goals like creating “green” jobs to replace igeneral industrial jobs. But, most importantly, it must de-coiuple from the Democratic party and that party’s liberal agenda.
Universal health care may be laudable, but it does not create an auto job. Raising the minimum wage may be charitable, but it does not organize Wal-Mart. Demanding immigration reform may be liberal, but, as early union leaders knew, unchecked immigration places downward pressure on wages.
The AFL-CIO and the Tea Party Movement as well as rural Republicans have more in common than anyone knows. Laid off factory workers are ready to fight free trade. The Tea Party will fight unregulated immigration.
The industrial union movement is dying in America because the Unions cointinue to support free trade Democrats, including President Obama. The union movement will continue to pay for its own demise if it remains as nothing more than a fundrtaiser for the Democratic Party.
There seem to be two schools of thought – one says, basically, give all of the money to the rich and they will ‘create jobs’. We see that the jobs they ‘create’ are non-union, overseas, part-time with no benefits, etc. What they have created is a jobless hell. The other school is public works, like the WPA in the thirties. That clearly is our only alternative – a massive program of public works funded by the money which we refuse to waste any longer on the savaging of Iraq and Afghanistan. We no longer can beat around the bush. It is time to tell the ugly truth, build a Labor Party and take action.